| A | B |
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| fiction | a story that is made up |
| legend | a tale that may have started as a true story about a real person or event |
| monument | something created to honor and remember a person or an event |
| tell tale | use humorous exaggeration to explain how something came to be the way it is. |
| Peco Bills | was a tall-tale of the American Southwest |
| Frederick Douglas | spent most of his life speaking and writing against slavery |
| Chief Plenty Coups | worked to find peaceful solutions to problems |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | worked to end poor living conditions and fought for the basic rights of all |
| The Gateway Arch in St. Louis | honors the brave pioneers who settled the West |
| The presidents whose faces are on Mount Rushmore were selected because | were selected because they stand for birth, growth, and development of our nation |
| Thanksgiving | is a national holiday celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November |
| Memorial Day | is a national holiday to honor citizens who have given their lives for the United States |
| vaccine | medicine that keeps people from getting a disease |
| myths | greeks and roman told stories called |
| greek and roman myths usually included | heroes who modeled proper behavior for citizens |
